<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Iznogoud writes:<br>
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>><br>>> Compile your own and they all do.<br>
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> This is what came to mind. That is what distro-makers do when they put one<br>
> together. It makes no sense to go away from a distribution that works well<br>
> for you overall just for having a specific development tool when there are<br>
> other ways to deal with it.<br><br></div>I bit this bullet again now and built a very recent version of gcc7. <br>It took over 8 hours on my Vizio laptop. If there's a way to get it to <br>just build the C and C++ compilers, I'm not aware of it.<br></div></div></div>It builds Fortran and some other compilers that I'm not interested in.<br>Probably I should have used make -j2 or 3 when I ran make. It's been<br></div><div>a few years since I've built anything that big.<br><br></div><div>I've never done anything with Intel's C++ compiler. Mostly I use Clang,<br>GCC, and a little bit of Microsoft. <br></div><div><br></div>I used Arch for a year or more in the past, but wasn't able to stay on <br>top of it. It reminds me of C++ in terms of giving you a lot of control. <br>Thanks for the Slackware and Tumbleweed recommendations. <br>I'll keep them in mind for the future.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Brian<br></div><div>Ebenezer Enterprises<br></div><div><a href="http://webEbenezer.net">http://webEbenezer.net</a><br></div></div></div>